The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-03-26

OF interest IN redeeming lands sold for tax
es from 20 to 10 per cent; to authorize
the commissioners of public lands to lease
lands Tor mining purposes; to authorize
the Hurley Street Railway Company to
lay and maintain street railway in Hur-
ley; TO create the county OF Rusk; to cause
the adludant general to publish 5000
copies OF the roster OF Wisconsin Volun-
teers complete; 10 decrease the salaries ot
county boards from $3 to $3.50 per day.
MADISON, March 15.-The senate bill
was concurred in appropriating to
the Wisconsin Dairymen' Association So
900 to cover the years 1SS7-S. The bill to
abolish the civil jurisdiction OF the Dodge
county court and to amend certain sec
ticns OF the revised statutes which was
non-concurred in. The following bills were
passed: Authorizing county boards of su-
pervlHors to levy tax not exceeding one
fifth OF one mill to create a fund for the re-
hef OF lndigent soldiers, sailors and mar
ines, or those made dependent by the death
OF such persons. The bill provides for the
appointment OF commissions OF three to
use the money in Offering the relief to the
particular classes mentioned; appIo-
priating the sum OF 81, 900 or so much
thereof es may be required, to aid in
securing an exhibit OF the condition and
work OF the public schools Of Wisconsin at
the national centenary school exposition
In Chicago in July, 1887 to regulate pawn
brokers, loan brokers, keepers OF loan Of
fees dealers in secondhand goods and
keepers OF Junk shops in the city OF Milwau-
kee, and ameudatory of chapter 1S4, of
the laws oil 1874. being an act to revise,
consolidate and amend the charter OF the
city of Milwaukee.
In the assembly the following bills were
passed: To incorporate the city OF Maus-
ton requiring the insurance commissioner
to state in each license issued to life and
accident insurance companies the amount
OF the guarantee capital OF the company
receiving the license, also in his annual re-
port; and prohibiting him from issuing any
license unlees the law is conformed to and
the guarantee capital is properly secured.
Senate bills were concurred in: To enlarge
the powers oil trustees OF cemetery associa-
tions; permitting suits against houses OF
ill-fame to he brought on Information and
belief simply; to provide for the formation
and government, by not less than twenty
five persons, OF mutual, reciprocal and CO.
operative associations wishing to engage
in the manufacture and distribution OF
products or the transaction of general
business; making it larceny for any person
to unlawfully sever from the soil ofanother
any cranberry vines growing thereon; to
authorize and empower the Wausau Boom
company to maintain it's dams and works
in the Wisconsin river; TO authorize the
town of Marinette to join with the munich
palities OF Michigan to construct and
maintain a bridge over the Menominee
river, and to levy taxes and borrow money
in aid thereof; to authorize the state board
OF supervision OF charitable, reformatory
and penal Institutions to build or license
the building OF railway spur tracks through
the grounds of the state institutions under
its charge, connecting those institutions
with the general lines of railway. The bill
to prohibit the leasing of convict labor
and to provide for the education OF the
convicts was indefinitely postponed.
MADISON, March 17.-Bills were passed
Relating to lands sold for taxes; adding
live stock insurance companies among the
companies included in chapter SO OF the re-
vised statutes; to authorize the city OF
Milwaukee to employ a veterinary surgeon
at an annual salary OF 5000; prohibiting
any person from practicing veterinary
science, or act as an expert witness, unless
he be duly registered. and no person shall
be entitled to register unless he is a gradu-
ate of a college of medicine or shall hold
certificate from legally incorporated vet
erinzry society, or shall have practiced for
five years continually prior to the passage
OF this act; requiring the commissioners OF
public lands to dispose of certain indemni-
ty lands received by the state in lien OF
swamps and overfowed lands located bv
military bounty warrants from September
2S, 1852, to March 3, 1857, the minimum
price per acre being 81, the proceeds to go
to the proper counties and towns. Bills to
amend the city charters OF Menominee and
Amigo were passed under suspension of
the rules. The vote WAS reconsidered by
which the assembly refused to concur in
the senate joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution, making
the oldest member OF IKE supreme court in
point OF service the ex-officio chief Justice
The resolution was then ordered to 6 third
reading.
MADISON, March 1S.-Among the Senate
6llls concurred in was the bill yacating a
certain alley in the Fourth Ward OF Mil,
waukee for Alex. Mitchell and John
Plankinton. Among the bills passed were
three to amend the charters OF Whitewater,
Waupaca, and Houghton; making it mis-
demeanor for any public officer to extort
by abuse or tricks confession from a
prisoner IN his charge, the maximum pun
ishment for each offense beiL. me years
imprisonment or $500 fine; to prevent
deception in the.sa OF cheese, by provid-
ing that all cases OF cheese must be marked
with its grade, under penalty OF a fine
OF S2Oper box wrongly marked, to go to
the person prosecuting; stipulating that
no agricultural, mechanical or similar So
cleues snail receive any money from the
state If they shall permit either gambling
or hquor selling on the grounds during
falrs; TO change the boundaries of Forest
and Marinette counties by providing that
townships 81, 30, SO and 81, north OF
ranges 15 and is east, shall be detached
from Forest county and attached to Mari
nette county, and to create second and
third municipal court for Barron county.
The assembly adjourned until Monday